When US President, Donald J Trump, released a barrage of scorching, uncomplimentary posts on his social media handles about Nigeria over the weekend, his Nigerian counterpart, Bola Tinubu, nearly fell into a trap. There were calls from some quarters that he should “engage” Trump, rather than let loose his propaganda officials. We started hearing that he […]

The emergence of Senator Bola Tinubu as the “winner” of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, governorship ticket on December 21,1998, unknown to many, marked a major historic turning point for Lagos State. Ordinarily, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the man in charge of the party’s primaries in Lagos, should have insisted on a rerun. He did not, mainly […]

The greatest oxygen of insecurity in Nigeria is what people call “political correctness”. Most people do not want to call a spade by its name. The question of whether there are Christian genocides in Nigeria should not arise. Routine Benue and Plateau mass burials say it all. The miasma of these massacres of Christian populations in […]

I have had several reasons to take on His Excellency, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Executive Governor of Anambra State. For instance, I felt it was imprudent of him to truculently target Peter Obi the way he did during and after the 2023 political season. Obi was running for president, and Soludo was already a Governor. Soludo’s […]

By the time you read this, President Bola Tinubu may have read the traditional Independence Day national broadcast. It is usually full of platitudes used to inspire the citizenry, reassure them of the glorious promises of the nation despite present challenges, forge national unity and patriotism and encourage the people to be ready to lay down […]